Chikako Hosokawa
Also Known As: Тикако Хосокава
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: December 31, 1905
Age: 119 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: March 20, 1976
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Car Thieves
Overview: Mixed-race children in Japan become involved in the petty theft of car parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-04
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Goodbye Mr. Tears
Overview: An American-Japanese girl travels to Japan to find her mother.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-30
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Beautiful Calendar
Overview: Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there is a young and handsome teacher Takei who has just started, and a chemistry teacher Murao who she respects, and is enjoying every day.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-11
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The Frozen Plains
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-22
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Watashi, chigatteiru kashira
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-29
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Children of Hiroshima
Overview: Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-08-06
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Man of the House
Overview: This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife (played by Chikako Hosokawa) who played shamisen for his songs/recitations), his affair with a geisha (Sachiko Chiba), and the deterioration of his partnership and marriage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-06-01
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Streetlights
Overview: A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-13
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What Price Love?
Overview: Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke Ooka, whose shrewd legal decisions became the stuff of legend. Okuma Shirokoya, the daughter of a lumber merchant in Edo (today’s Tokyo), embarked on an affair and was executed after conspiring with her maid to murder her husband. (Source: https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/shirokoya-komako/)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-09
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Lost Love
Overview: Shimamura is a young man whose family went broke and lost their house. One day, as he returns to his former house to get a camellia blooming from the garden, he sees a beautiful schoolgirl who lives there. After they coincidentally meet again they fall for each other, but she is already engaged.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-23
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Fighting Delinquents
Overview: This rarely seen gem from master Suzuki casts teenage heartthrob Koji Wada as a young misfit who suddenly finds himself the unwitting pawn in an escalating family feud that ultimately leads to tragedy. Lean, mean, and stylish as always, this tale of youth-gone-wild is both vibrant and touching. Suzuki contrasts tranquil glimpses of traditional regional life with the emergence of the new rock 'n' roll youth culture and the greed and seething cynicism of encroaching Westernism. Also released under the title "Go To Hell, Hoodlums!", this is a melodrama as colorful, shocking, and exhilarating as one would come to expect from Japan's master filmmaker.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-23
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限りなき情熱
Overview: Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustling streets of dazzling colors, where revelry abounds, a tale of love and chivalry blossoms into a beautiful flower of emotion.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-06-01
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This Day's Life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-06-26
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Late Chrysanthemums
Overview: With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-15
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Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Overview: Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-08-15
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Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Overview: Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in bars...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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Buddha
Overview: An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-31
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The War Without Weapons
Overview: It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the amendment of the Peace Preservation Law, and was assassinated by a rightist prior to his opposition speech.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-08
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High School Third Graders
Overview: In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie based on Kenji Tomishima 's novel “Shake to Tomorrow” with the same title, produced by Daiei with this song as a motif. Singer and actor Funaki Kazuo also appears in the movie, which depicts the fun, love and heartbreak in a Japanese school.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-16
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Before Dawn
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-10-13
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The Call of Blood
Overview: Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-03
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Overview: Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-15
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Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
Overview: [Period covered: 1595-1600] We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon, as he was about to be boiled alive. But a good ninja is both hard to find, and even harder to kill. With the help of the enigmatic Hattori Hanzo, Goemon lives to skulk another day, and sets his sights on bringing down the warlord who tried to turn him into soup – Toyotomi Hideyoshi. And as always, in the background, the suble hand of Tokugawa Ieyasu is pulling strings as he plots to rule all of Japan!
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-28
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The Maid's Kid
Overview: In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her family. She grows close to their youngest son Katsumi, experiencing things that will change her view on life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-06-28
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The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart
Overview: Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's family will not accept her choice, while leading an honest life seems like an unattainable goal for Jiro. Can there be anything else but a tragic ending?
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-10
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A Secret Rendezvous
Overview: After witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of fear of exposing their affair.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-11
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The Golden Demon
Overview: Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter of Kan-ichi's debtor) is canceled to enable Miya to marry Tomiyama, a wealthy banker's son. In bitter despair, Kan-ichi breaks with his friends, drops his studies, and declares he has ceased to be human. He apprentices to a money-lender, and he's soon ruthless and wealthy. Several years later, Miya's in misery, her husband mistreats her. She goes to Kan-ichi to beg forgiveness; he pushes her away. He's now pursued by Akagashi, herself a cold-hearted loan shark. Can anything free Kan-ichi's hard heart from the golden demon
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-21
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Shi no machi wo nogarete
Overview: Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-22
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The Seasons of Love
Overview: A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by his wife, one daughter is forced to marry an older man against her will, while the other has retreated into smug moral superiority.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-10
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Love is Lost
Overview: Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-05
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That Guy and I
Overview: Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-10
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Windy Street
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-13
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Drifting
Overview: Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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The Young and Bad
Overview: Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed suicide. There was nothing in his life anymore that he could look forward to. Sochiro was ready to put an to it end to all. As he drives down the Usui Pass, headed toward his summer house in Karuizawa, a girl in red heels, wearing nothing else but a coat jumps in front of the car.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-09
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The President's Son
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-27
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Miniature
Overview: Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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The Passionate Spinster
Overview: She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that wasn't hers. She knew the procedure: watch the bride and groom get congratulated, smile to cover up the loneliness. But she didn't want to feel like this forever. In that moment, Shimako decided that the next wedding she'd attend had to be her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-23
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A Design for Dying
Overview: Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and Shikiko soon feels that he is indispensable to her. But the advent of a man in their midst breaks up the harmony that has existed among the four women, as gradually he forces himself on them with promises of love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-28
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Tokyo Knights
Overview: A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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Children of Izu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-21
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The Snowy Heron
Overview: The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-29
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Actress
Overview: Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-11-27
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Tadano Bonji: Jinsei Benkyô
Overview: Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-01-05
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A Samurai Never Tells a Lie
Overview: The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be together due to a difference of their status. Soon, an offer of marriage is brought to Harima. Trying to test his love, Okiku breaks one of the plates of the family treasure of the Aoyama family, but Harima doesn't notice. However, someone surrounding her witnesses the moment Okiku breaks the plate on purpose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-05-29
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Gambler's Dilemma
Overview: The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-09-27
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Profound Desires of the Gods
Overview: Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-22
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Tokai no kaii 7-ji 03-bu
Overview: Miyamoto Tokunosuke works at a Detective Agency in the heart of Tokyo. When his lover Ranko tells him that she's pregnant, he begins to worry. His company hasn't paid his backsalary and he doesn't know how he will pay for the new baby. His friend Suihei tells him about a job at a bar, but on his way there, Tokunosuke meets a mysterious man who sells him a newspaper...for tomorrow!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-10-09
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The Flame of Devotion
Overview: The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of war.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-22
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The Day of Youth
Overview: At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away from gang activities despite the wishes of his father who wants him to assist strengthen the gang against the Kawano group. Takema's classmate, Akiko, is the daughter of Eiko who operates a restaurant, and through her he obtains a lodging in the house of Shiu, a dancing mistress. The students enjoy their life, but most have their troubles. Sakamoto works as a laborer on the docks to help pay for his schooling, and Akiko worries over the relationship between her mother and Sakurai, a corrupt politician, suspected to be involved in graft over jet aircraft.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-29
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Sunset Hill
Overview: A yakuza falls in love with his brother's mistress while he is serving his sentence, and hides out in Hakodate to wait for her... A mood action masterpiece set to a hit song. Ruriko Asaoka plays both the older and younger sisters who fall in love with the same man.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-29
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Wakarete ikiru toki mo
Overview: A Hiromichi Horikawa movie
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-04
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